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The world’s leading publication for one-namers - E NA N M O E F S O T U D D L I I E S U G 1 ournal 9 79 Jof One-Name Studies DNA Discoveries Pt 2 Eastlake A Data Mining Exercise One-Name Vol 10 Issue April - June 2011 Vol Archaeology The Moulder Archive The Quested Surname Killing ‘em off & More All the latest Guild news and updates - E NA N M O E F S O T U D D L I I E S U G 1 9 79 Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings CHAIRMAN Guild information Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA Kirsty Gray Tel: 0800 011 2182 (UK) 11 Brendon Close Tel: 1-800 647 4100 (North America) Tilehurst, Reading Tel: 1800 305 184 (Australia) Berkshire Regional Representatives RG30 6EA The Guild has Regional Reps in E-mail: [email protected] 0118 941 9224 many areas. 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Wonersh, Guildford You can join the list by sending a Gordon Adshead Surrey, GU5 0SE message with your membership John Coldwell 01483 898339 number to: Peter Copsey [email protected] [email protected] Stephen Daglish Corrinne Goodenough TREASURER To e-mail a message to the forum, Ken Mycock Cliff Kemball send it to: Roy Rayment 168 Green Lane [email protected] Chiselhurst Anne Shankland Kent Sandra Turner BR7 6AY 0208 467 8865 [email protected] Stand Manager Corrinne Goodenough Forum Manager REGISTRAR Wendy Archer Stephen Daglish www.facebook.com/guildonename Regional Reps Co-ordinator 113 Stomp Road www.twitter.com/guildonename Corrinne Goodenough Burnham Website Manager Berkshire Anne Shankland SL1 7NN Librarian & Helpdesk 01628 666464 Roy Rayment [email protected] The Journal of One-Name Studies is published quarterly by the Guild of One-Name Studies and printed by Flexpress Ltd, 6 Coal Cart Road, SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMEN Interchange, Birstall, Leicester, LE4 3BY Executive Kirsty Gray ISSN 0262-4842 Seminar Gordon Adshead © Journal of One-Name Studies Marketing John Coldwell ournal Volume 10 Issue 10 April-June 2011 Jof One-Name Studies CONTENTS MAIN ARTICLES 6 DNA Discoveries (Pt 2) by Susan C Meates 10 Eastlake: A Data Mining Exercise 14 One-Name Archaeology by Derek Palgrave 16 The Moulder Archive by Sue Horsman 19 Killing ‘em off by Roger Goacher 20 Some Speculations on the Origin of the Quested Surname by Penelope Burton GUILD REPORTS - NEWS - EVENTS 5 Guild News Xtra 17 Who Do You Think You Are? Live by Corrinne Goodenough 24 Seminar Report - Rogues Seminar by Janet Few 25 Forthcoming Seminars 26 Guild Membership Survey by Chris Pomery REGULARS 4 From The Chairman’s Keyboard by Kirsty Gray 5 One-Name Mail 18 Marriage Challenge Update by Peter Copsey 27 Book Reviews ARTICLES, letters and other contributions are welcomed from members, especially accompanied by illustrations, and should be sent to the Editor. Publication dates will normally be the first day of January, April, July and October. Copyright of the material is to the Editor and Publishers of the Journal of One-Name Studies and the author. No material may be reproduced in part or in whole without the prior permission of the publishers. The views expressed in the Journal are those of individual contributors and are not necessarily those of the committee of the Guild of One-Name Studies. The distribution list for this Journal is based on the information held in the Guild database on the first of the month preceding the issue date. From the Chairman’s Keyboard... By Kirsty Gray ould I have picked a better time the features of Surname Atlas, the to write my Chairman’s Column improvements include: “This netted the Guild Cthan on my return from Who Do more new members in a 3 You Think You Are Live?! I very much • a county surname tab which doubt it! Having been a member of identified which surnames have day period than have joined our wonderful organisation since a higher total percentage in a in any previous month since 2002, I have personally assisted on particular county than any other various occasions on the bookstall county we began.” with Howard Benbrook and extolled the virtues of the Guild as well as • an increased program win- occasionally managing to sell superb dow with larger graphics and resources to members and non- extended maximum zoom per- to have created a link with someone members alike. With the retirement cent to 5,000% (mainly needed who might be able to work with us on of Howard in November last year for London) creating a mutually beneficial associa- and the new ‘marketing’ approach tion for us all. So, watch this space! to Family History Fairs, Corrinne • a colour-coded histogram bar to Goodenough had a particularly tough display results What a year! task at the event this year. With her Now that I am reaching the end of outstanding management skills and The old saying that ‘a picture is my first year as Chairman and I have a superb team, 47 people joined the worth a thousand words’ is definitely a chance to look back, it has been Guild at the show, 2 who re-joined true with Surname Atlas! As Steve a year of enormous change for the and a further 12 new members joined himself says: ‘Surname Atlas is a must- Guild. I have thoroughly enjoyed online while the show was on, using have for people undertaking family leading the organisation through the special membership offer of 20 history research who want to show the roller coaster of 2010/11, though months for £20 – an ingenious master the distribution of their surnames’. there have been many tough times plan from our Treasurer, Cliff Kemball. and difficult decisions which have This netted the Guild more new Guild Elections had to be taken to steady the ship members in a 3 day period than have The date has passed for nominations and move the Guild forward. We joined in any previous month since we to be received for Election to the don’t always get it right and I am began. A massive achievement! Guild Committee. Results will be grateful when you, the members, announced at the AGM in April tell us we aren’t! That said, it has We were ‘plugged’ by many of the along with the presentation of been particularly gratifying of late lecturers in the programme of Society the Master Craftsmen of the Guild to have received so many e-mails of Genealogists workshops and we (MCG) awards. The AGM/Conference and verbal communications praising are indebted to many helpers during weekend is around the corner and I the work we are doing and thanking the course of the event, from the look forward to seeing many of you the Officers and post holders, all of ‘Ask The Experts’ team, organised by there – some new faces and many old whom give their time freely. Recent Barbara Harvey, to the nearly two friends. If you haven’t booked your comments range from ‘the Guild is dozen members who assisted on the place yet, do get in touch with the so lively now’, ‘I am amazed at the Guild stand. Thank you one and all for team ([email protected]) efficiency and response I get from making this such a success. and see if there are any spaces, but the Guild…… I have also been to a don’t leave it too late!! regional meeting today which was Surname Atlas very informative and friendly’ to For those of you who missed In the last journal, I wrote an arti- ‘we are moving so fast compared WDYTYA, you may be unaware of cle about our new links with Fami- to other genealogical organisations the release of the updated version lySearch. This is now live and in the …. What a wonderful organising (1.1) of Surname Atlas, the software forthcoming months, you should committee we have!’ I am sure that designed by Guild member and begin to see some correspondence you will share in thanking the team Master Craftsman, Steve Archer, coming from individuals who have for their hard work and dedication which plots surname and first name found your one-name study by using in the 2010/11 Guild Committee year data from the 1881 census. For the new site. Ancestry have always and I look forward to many more those who are already familiar with proved hard to crack, though the successful years to come! n personal touch at WDYTYA appears 4 Journal of One-Name Studies, April-June 2011 Guild NewsXtra Guild Helpdesk HELP WANTED! As part of our marketing research reaches Oz the sub-committee is collecting details of published articles on one- By Roy Rayment name, or surname, studies and any mentions of the Guild. All publica- ollowing the highly successful tions from anywhere in the world launch of the Guild Helpdesk’s and all types of sources from news- FNorth American toll-free stand magazines to society journals, telephone number in April last year, both hard copy and “electronic”, the service has now been extended The committee are of interest.